Zuni Jet Fetish Necklace

Beautiful Zuni fetish necklace with various animals, hand carved in spiny oyster, with thunderbird center with turquoise. PERIOD: after 1950 ORI...

Assorted animals, hand carved of many different stones. PERIOD: 1980s-2000 ORIGIN: Zuni, Southwest SIZE: Length: 35" Naja: 4 1/8" Family Owned & Operated Cisco’s Gallery deals in...

Exceptional fossilized walrus ivory,fetish necklace. With birds, fox, bears, and standing bear center. PERIOD: After 1950 ORIGIN: Zuni, Southwest SIZE:...

Native American Zuni six strand beaded coral necklace with traditional cord wrapping. Strung with graduated coral beads, accented with turquoise and patinaed silver beads. Coral is a...

Zuni multi strand red coral seed bead necklace. Features 30 strands of oxblood colored coral, seed beads and a sterling silver hook and eye clasp. ...

Zuni six strand coral necklace with traditional cord wrapping and strung with graduated coral beads, accented with turquoise and silver beads. Unmarked. PERIOD: Mid 20th Century OR...

AMULET PENDANT WITH FIGA Spain, c. 1620–1630 Jet, silver, and enamel Weight 60.7 grams; dimensions 85 × 49 × 18 mm Large pendant in the shape of a hand carved from jet with a clinched fist in the figa (Spanish higa) gesture. In the palm of the hand is a heart carved in relief and on the back a six-ray star in a circle. The silver mount covers the wrist like a cuff and is decorated with a frilled border, and on the front with collet-set bosses with silver C-scrolls against blue enamel; on the back is a roundel in relief with floral motif. Domed base for the pendant loop in pea-pod form. The figa (also fica or higa) represents an age-old symbol of protection against the evil eye and other demonic threats. Its origins were pagan and buried deep in antiquity. Roman examples, such as one found recently in an archeological excavation in London, also make it clear that the protective qualities are based in a sexual symbolism–particularly the power of the phallus. The Roman bone figa/phallus in effect represents the phallus twice; that is, the gesture made by the figa hand is generally explained as fingers representing the female genitalia (vulva) penetrated by the phallus of the thumb. But other interpretations are less specific, including explanations that the left hand is the feminine principle, and the right hand is the masculine. In Spain, jet figa are common; we see one in the portrait of Anne of Austria the infanta (p. 75). That is not to say that the objects are not sumptuous or treasured. Jet was a very valuable material, and in many examples like this one, the figa is embellished with beautiful enameling or is even gem-studded. Comparable objects occur in equally sumptuous materials such as rock crystal. The enameled setting allows a dating of these objects that otherwise might prove difficult, given that the production of such objects in Spain is so consistent over centuries. Indeed, there is another, even more elaborately carved example in this collection, attached to the “magic belt” (no. 9). That example may belong to an earlier group. That figa includes deeply excavated carving, including on the upper surface, an M-shaped design that Walter Leo Hildburgh links to the heart shape (as it occurs more explicitly on this example). Hildburgh argues that its presence is especially common on these objects and that it originally represented the Sacred Heart of Mary...

ROSARY BEAD WITH WENDEKOPF Germany, 16th century Bone Weight 12 grams; dimensions 29 × 23 × 24 cm A double-sided bead made of bone with a finely carved head of Christ on one side an...

18k Gold Rosary with Virgin and Cross with Christ. 4mm balls. Length to the medal: 40 cm. From the medal to the cross: 9 cm. Weights is 7,8 grams. ...

18 Kl Gold Rosary with the Virgin and cross with Christ. 4mm balls. Length to the medal: 60 cm. From the medal to the cross: 9 cm. It weight is 14 gram...

18 Kl Gold Rosary with the Virgin and cross 4mm balls. Length to the medal: 42 cm. From the medal to the cross: 9 cm. It weight is 5,9 grams. All PR...

Rosary Necklace in 18K Gold and Onyx Rosary Necklace Unisex Woman Man with Virgin Mary Miraculous Medal and Cross 18kt rose gold with Onyx with brilliant and satin finish Weight: gr...